Steve Jobs' Stanford commencement talk 2005

Truly inspiring:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc

Whether you smoke one cigarette a week or more, the lung cells know it all

More at yahoo news: Secondhand Cigarette Smoke Alters Genes, Study Says
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/08599201210300;_ylt=Ao4fwiqudsIB0mU1dd.66NFH2ocA;_ylu=X3oDMTM1dXNia2FrBGFzc2V0A3RpbWUvMjAxMDA4MjAvMDg1OTkyMDEyMTAzMDAEY2NvZGUDbW9zdHBvcHVsYXIEY3BvcwM2BHBvcwM2BHNlYwN5bl90b3Bfc3RvcmllcwRzbGsDc2Vjb25kaGFuZGNp

On scientific career and more

Nature has some nice articles on the following topics:

Scientific career renewal: http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/2010/100812/full/nj7308-893a.html

Metrics to measure productivity and to make decision for promotion etc: http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100616/full/465860a.html

About sabbatical: http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/2007/070816/full/nj7155-834a.html

Amazing predator videos from Nat Geo

Here is the link:

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/animals/reptiles-animals/snakes/cobra_eatsratsnake.html?source=email_inside

Want to know about the History of Indian mathematics?

Go here http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Indexes/Indians.html .

This sums it all:

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The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute value) emerged in India. The idea seems so simple nowadays that its significance and profound importance is no longer appreciated. Its simplicity lies in the way it facilitated calculation and placed arithmetic foremost amongst useful inventions. the importance of this invention is more readily appreciated when one considers that it was beyond the two greatest men of Antiquity, Archimedes and Apollonius.

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